On Tue, 2003-09-23 at 11:44, Brion Vibber wrote:
To access the English wikipedia through pliny (the
bigger server), which
may be faster while Larousse is overloaded:
http://en2.wikipedia.org/
It's read/write for articles, but it's got a slightly outdated copy of
the uploaded images, and I've disabled new uploads. New TeX images may
stomp on each other too, but that can be sorted out later.
I've tweaked Special:Userlogin to redirect to
en2.wikipedia.org, so if
you log in (or manually seek the other server) you may get an improved
experience, while larousse is bogged down by everyone and his brother
coming from search engines.
Poor man's load balancing until we get round-robin DNS and a real
separate other server set up. ;) Hopefully this won't put too much of a
burden on the other languages/wikis in the meantime. :(
Uploads now will go only to en2, and www is the one that'll be a little
behind until they're resynchronised. (rsync is lovely for this.)
-- brion vibber (brion @
pobox.com)